Vaucluse
Race for Vaucluse heats up
THE competition for Liberal preselection in the prestigious state seat of Vaucluse has intensified, with candidates claiming the support of senior Liberals and high-profile names in business and...
Doyle puts hand up for seat of Vaucluse
Andrew Clennell PETER DOYLE, a member of the restaurant-owning family that owns Peter Doyle at the Quay and Watsons Bay Hotel, is to stand for Liberal preselection for the state seat of Vaucluse.
Paul was not the black sheep of family: peers
Kate McClymont THE arrest of Scots College old boy Paul Peters has shocked his former classmates - particularly as the position of black sheep of the Peters family has long been occupied by his older brother Brent,...
Diabetes rate soars in poorer areas
Erik Jensen Health THE rate of diabetes has increased by up to 40 per cent over five years in coastal retirement areas of NSW and has reached worryingly high levels in western Sydney - areas of the state least able to...
O'Farrell scores and Baird surprises
Sean Nicholls IT WAS Barry O'Farrell's big day: a chance for the new Premier to lord it over the first question time of the new Parliament with his MPs dominating the bearpit.
A challenging future is in these hands
Sean Nicholls The mood inside the NSW Parliament's historic Jubilee Room was naturally ecstatic for the first meeting of the new government on Wednesday.
Here comes O'Farrell's new wave
Heath Aston BARRY O'FARRELL will reward persistence ahead of potential in choosing his first cabinet if the Coalition, as expected, storms into government in March.
Retirement is just super for departing MPs' wallets
Alexandra Smith STATE POLITICS PETER DEBNAM has sat quietly on the opposition benches since 2008 - so quietly that barely a peep has been heard from the former opposition leader since he quit the frontbench in protest over...
Pay-to-view creeps into the night
Vanda Carson IT USED to be that Sydneysiders and visitors could arrive at New Year's Eve by the harbour with their picnic and enjoy the fireworks free.
Barry's Angels on the warpath
Heath Aston THEY'RE known as ''Barry's Angels'' - a group of candidates who the Liberal Party believe could turn a thumping Coalition victory at the state election in March into a rout.
Socialist shakedown in lacklustre Labor
Alex Mitchell IT HAS become a cliche to ridicule Labor MPs who are retiring before the next state election as rats leaving a sinking ship.
Historic church fight heads for court
Josephine Tovey URBAN AFFAIRS THE Anglican Church will go to the Land and Environment Court next month to argue for the right to subdivide and sell part of a historic piece of land in Vaucluse, including the burial site of...
Liberal spat: fish restaurateur is not the only one spitting chips
Mark Metherell and Louise Hall Two luminaries of the Liberal heartland seat of Vaucluse have shown just how deeply wounded they were to be passed over for preselection on Sunday.
Commerce enters the arena as a bygone era is preserved in trust
Steve Meacham For generations of schoolchildren, the name Throsby Park meant one thing: not that it is one of NSW's finest convict-era homesteads, owned by five generations of the same family since it was built in...
Judge refuses injunction over Liberal preselection
Brian Robins and Louise Hall A SUPREME COURT judge refused a temporary restraining order seeking to block a meeting of Liberal Party preselectors from choosing a candidate for the blue-ribbon seat of Baulkham Hills.
They're a joke: Debnam slams both sides
Sean Nicholls STATE POLITICAL EDITOR AS THE starter's gun is about to sound on the unofficial NSW election campaign, the retiring former Liberal leader Peter Debnam has ridiculed the performance of both sides of politics as...
11th hour payout in $15m fraud case
Joel Gibson and Ellie Harvey PERPETUAL Trustees Australia has settled a High Court case brought by the brother of the late attorney-general Paul Landa at the eleventh hour, avoiding a potentially damaging judgment over its...
Historic mansion in eye of government wrecker's ball
Louise Hall A HISTORIC mansion in Darling Point that has housed a renal dialysis unit for almost 30 years is under threat of demolition and the land is set to be sold by the state government.
Landa relations wait for decision in fraud case
Joel Gibson LEGAL AFFAIRS FAMILY members of the former NSW Attorney-General Paul Landa are facing financial ruin due to the continuing fallout from a $15 million fraud.
A piece of New York by the harbour has heritage society worried
Kelsey Munro Urban Affairs NEW YORK UNIVERSITY has been in discussions with the state government over using the heritage-listed harbourfront site of Strickland House for its planned Sydney campus, including converting existing...